So one lousy comment is all it takes to ruin a lifetime of achievement? God, we are soft. Look, this guy has helped employ African-Americans for three decades. Good grief, he made a bunch of people millionaires! Cut him some slack, Jack! It ain't like he said black people were better off as slaves or something.

Darth_Lukecash:FTFAIt is not known if the recordings have been doctored or altered.

Wow...is ESPN bending over backwards here? Or is it just me?

Well, let's see: Sterling's team is in the playoffs, he's suing the leaker unrelated issues, and he's had a history of questionable(or worse) decisions on the subject of race. There's good reason to drag his name through the mud right now, regardless of truth. To say "let's hold the lynchmob until he's had his day in court" is probably fair.

bhcompy:Darth_Lukecash: FTFAIt is not known if the recordings have been doctored or altered.

Wow...is ESPN bending over backwards here? Or is it just me?

Well, let's see: Sterling's team is in the playoffs, he's suing the leaker unrelated issues, and he's had a history of questionable(or worse) decisions on the subject of race. There's good reason to drag his name through the mud right now, regardless of truth. To say "let's hold the lynchmob until he's had his day in court" is probably fair.

His team is getting blown out right now, down by 22 late in the second quarter.

HawgWild:So one lousy comment is all it takes to ruin a lifetime of achievement? God, we are soft. Look, this guy has helped employ African-Americans for three decades. Good grief, he made a bunch of people millionaires! Cut him some slack, Jack! It ain't like he said black people were better off as slaves or something.

why they ever gave him one is a mystery to me. the second one would have been just as laughable. sterling has been a will always be a farking shiathead racist. this ain't exactly new behavior for that douchenozzle.

bhcompy:Darth_Lukecash: FTFAIt is not known if the recordings have been doctored or altered.

Wow...is ESPN bending over backwards here? Or is it just me?

Well, let's see: Sterling's team is in the playoffs, he's suing the leaker unrelated issues, and he's had a history of questionable(or worse) decisions on the subject of race. There's good reason to drag his name through the mud right now, regardless of truth. To say "let's hold the lynchmob until he's had his day in court" is probably fair.

Well, according to the ESPN ticker, Sterling doesn't deny that the authenticity of the recording. All he says is that the recording doesn't accurately reflect his feelings or some shiat. I find that to be terribly damning.

Marmilman:bhcompy: Darth_Lukecash: FTFAIt is not known if the recordings have been doctored or altered.

Wow...is ESPN bending over backwards here? Or is it just me?

Well, let's see: Sterling's team is in the playoffs, he's suing the leaker unrelated issues, and he's had a history of questionable(or worse) decisions on the subject of race. There's good reason to drag his name through the mud right now, regardless of truth. To say "let's hold the lynchmob until he's had his day in court" is probably fair.

Well, according to the ESPN ticker, Sterling doesn't deny that the authenticity of the recording. All he says is that the recording doesn't accurately reflect his feelings or some shiat. I find that to be terribly damning.

Maybe he'll call a press conference to tell us one more think he knows about the negro.

Maybe somebody can clarify something for me. Is the woman Sterling was allegedly talking to in the recording currently his girlfriend? And isn't Sterling currently married to another woman as well? How the hell does anybody like this guy?

Marmilman:Well, according to the ESPN ticker, Sterling doesn't deny that the authenticity of the recording. All he says is that the recording doesn't accurately reflect his feelings or some shiat. I find that to be terribly damning.

Man he was totally deserving of it until we found out about this. A real shame he can't get another award for his lifetime of achievement in race relations just because he turned out to be a racist, completely in line with all his previous behavior.

If you can't give two lifetime achievement awards from the NAACP to a guy who has repeatedly been sued for discrimination and happened to say something characteristically racist recently, this isn't the country I grew up in. Thanks Obama!

Serious Black:Maybe somebody can clarify something for me. Is the woman Sterling was allegedly talking to in the recording currently his girlfriend? And isn't Sterling currently married to another woman as well?

Smeggy Smurf:A Fark Handle: Smeggy Smurf: the_vegetarian_cannibal: Wait, the NAACP was planning to give Sterling a lifetime achievement award in the first place?

Why?

Hasn't it been a well-known fact for years that he's a huge racist who dislikes blacks and Mexicans?

No.

YES!

/ftfy//he has paid millions in fines for being a racist landlord

Not everybody pays attention to thugball or the twits involved with it. If I wanted violence I'd watch hockey

perhaps, but my comment was more to the fact that the naacp should have known long before the first never mind the second lifetime achievement award because a simple google search would tell you that sterling is a racist farktard.

jaylectricity:HawgWild: So one lousy comment is all it takes to ruin a lifetime of achievement? God, we are soft. Look, this guy has helped employ African-Americans for three decades. Good grief, he made a bunch of people millionaires! Cut him some slack, Jack! It ain't like he said black people were better off as slaves or something.

Correction. African-Americans helped make him billions.

Here's the part that I can't believe isn't being talked about more:

[Sterling]: You just, do I know? I support them and give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses. Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them? Do I know that I have-Who makes the game? Do I make the game, or do they make the game? Is there 30 owners, that created the league?

There isn't JUST racism here, he's a self-important asshole. People don't come to see his fat ass, they come to see the players play. He isn't "giving" them anything... the players help make him rich. This guy is an asshat on ALL levels.

My friends, in the interest of furthering race relations in this country, I, the all knowing, all seeing Maha Rushie, am willing to fly out to Los Angeles in EIB One to settle this issue between the Clippers organization and the NBA. If I have to, I'll buy Sterling out of his share of ownership, and add the Clippers to the EIB media empire.

"The Maha Rushie: My friends, in the interest of furthering race relations in this country, I, the all knowing, all seeing Maha Rushie, am willing to fly out to Los Angeles in EIB One to settle this issue between the Clippers organization and the NBA. If I have to, I'll buy Sterling out of his share of ownership, and add the Clippers to the EIB media empire."

Marmilman: Well, according to the ESPN ticker, Sterling doesn't deny that the authenticity of the recording. All he says is that the recording doesn't accurately reflect his feelings or some shiat. I find that to be terribly damning.

Probably, but I'm not going to damn someone until it's proven

I'll just go ahead and wrap this comment up and throw in the deep freeze for later.

TheJoe03:Sounds like the LA chapter of the NAACP is crooked as hell and probably got some cash for these lifetime achievement awards. He got his first award during the Elgin Baylor controversy for fark sake.

The fact that they are giving an award to an even bigger racist than Stirling...Al Sharpton...is a bigger evil here

Sharpton, unlike Stirling, has been directly responsible for killing Jews, hangs around with the racist New Black Panthers, and was a dope dealing informant for the FBI